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You Are Here, This Is Now: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America (A Push Anthology)
By David Levithan. 2002
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's The Tempest
By Sheri Metzger. 2013
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest…
generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Tempest, you follow the famous story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda. Through magic, Prospero conjures up a storm that brings a ship full of his enemies to the island on which he and Miranda live. What follows is Shakespeare's comic masterpiece that's full of intrigue and romance. Summaries and commentaries lead you, act by act, through this Shakespearean classic, and critical essays give you insight into the play as a political romance. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of the main characters A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters A section on the life and background of William Shakespeare A review section that tests your knowledge A ResourceCenter full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure -- you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.Parasmani Pradhan
By Indramani Pradhan. 1997
A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
By Nancy Mairs. 2001
Few have succeeded so well in illuminating the paradox of living with the reality of death as essayist Nancy Mairs…
in this unflinching look at assisted suicide, the death penalty, and other life-and-death decisions.Authors Speak
By Saccidanandan. 2006
Authors Speak is a collection of talks delivered by eminent Indian authors at the 'Meet the Author' programmes organised jointly…
by the Sahitya Akademi and the India International Centre, New Delhi.Thomas Hardy
By Mark Ford. 2016
Because Thomas Hardy's poetry and fiction are so closely associated with Wessex, it is easy to forget that he was,…
in his own words, half a Londoner, moving between country and capital throughout his life. This self-division, Mark Ford says, can be traced not only in works explicitly set in London but in his most regionally circumscribed novels.Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
By Moises Kaufman. 1998
A theatrical depiction of the Oscar Wilde trials that took place in the late 1800s. The famous playwright and renowned…
wit was publicly tried for his rumoured relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. His sentencing shaped society's view of homosexuality as a criminal act.C. C. Mehta
By Shailesh Tevani. 2003
Ancient Indian Literature, an Anthology: Volume One, Vedic Sanskrit and Pali
By T. R. S. Sharma. 2000
This consists of selections in translation of Indian literature from the beginning to AD 1100. Vol I covers Vedic Sanskrit…
and Pali texts together since they represent two scriptural traditions which have given rise to two major religions of the world.Shrovetide in Old New Orleans
By Ishmael Reed. 1978
Another controversial and whimsical selection of short stories by acclaimed author Ishmael Reed... some of which stem back to the…
days of his youth and many more quite recent -- with many of them having been published previously.Ancient Indian Literature, an Anthology: Volume Three, Tamil and Kannada
By T. R. S. Sharma. 2000
A very detailed and lucid book written by Mr. Sharma as he gives a good description of the Indian culture…
and any person reading this book would definitely get a profound knowledge of this culture.The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
By Kam Louie, Bonnie S. Mcdougall. 1997
In this general history of modern Chinese literature, McDougall (Chinese literature, Edinburgh U.) describes the fiction, drama, and poetry, and…
the historical and cultural developments, in three key periods: first, 1900-37, when Western influences led to new concepts of literature; second, 1938-65, when the Japanese invasion and the rise of the Communists marked a return to Chinese traditions followed by political restraint of literary production; and third, 1966-89, when underground literature set the stage for an era of experimentation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition
By Princeton Review. 2007
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A's in school.…
We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about literature--only the techniques and information you'll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and: Learn what subject matter will be tested so you can study more effectively; Review key terms, types of literature, and reading-comprehension concepts that will help you decipher complicated questions; Use proven techniques to raise your score. The 2007-2008 edition of Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test is revised and updated to include the most current information possible.Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
By Vanessa Perez Rosario. 1986
While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding…
and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.Ray Bradbury Unbound
By Jonathan R. Eller. 2014
In Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved…
author's evolution from a short story master to a multi-media creative force and outspoken visionary. At the height of his powers as a poetic prose stylist, Bradbury shifted his creative attention to film and television, where new successes gave him an enduring platform as a compelling cultural commentator. His passionate advocacy validated the U.S. space program's mission, extending his pivotal role as a chronicler of human values in an age of technological wonders. Informed by many years of interviews with Bradbury as well as an unprecedented access to personal papers and private collections, Ray Bradbury Unbound provides the definitive portrait of how a legendary American author helped shape his times.Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
By William Solomon. 2016
Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and nyuk-nyuks percolated alongside literary modernism throughout…
the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and popular music. William Solomon charts the origins and evolution of what he calls slapstick modernism --a merging of artistic experimentation with the socially disruptive lunacy made by the likes of Charlie Chaplin. Romping through texts, films, and theory, Solomon embarks on a harum-scarum intellectual odyssey from high modernism to the late modernism of the Beats and Burroughs before a head-on crash into the raw power of punk rock. Throughout, he shows the links between the experimental writers and silent screen performers of the early century, and explores the potent cultural undertaking that drew inspiration from anarchical comedy after World War Two.The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with David Barsamian
By Edward W. Said. 1994
Edward W. Said, raised in Jerusalem, is interviewed here on a range of subjects: from V.S. Naipaul's and Joseph Conrad's…
depictions of colonialism and empire in their novels; to the links between the Palestinian and South African struggles.Romantic Tragedies
By Reeve Parker. 2011
Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio,…
were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later, Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance of subtly repeated imagery and resonances with Virgil, Shakespeare, Racine, Jean-François Ducis and Schiller, Parker's close readings, which are boldly imaginative and decidedly untoward, argue that at the heart of these tragedies lie powerful dramatic uncertainties driven by unstable passions - what he calls, adapting Coleridge's phrase for sorcery, 'dark employments'.Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages
By Norman R Shapiro, Olga Pastuchiv. 2015
The French have long had a love affair with the cat, expressed through centuries of poetry portraying the animal's wit…
and wonder. Norman R. Shapiro lionizes the felines' limitless allure in this one-of-a-kind collection. Spanning centuries and styles, he draws on she-cats and toms, and an honor roll of French poets, well known and lesser known, who have served as their devoted champions. He reveals the remarkable range of French cat poems, with most works presented here for the first time in English translation. Scrupulously devoted to evoking the meaning and music of the originals, Shapiro also respects the works' formal structures. Pairing his translations with Olga Pastuchiv's elegant illustrations, Fe-Lines guides the reader through the marvels and inscrutabilities of the Mystique féline .Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
By Susan Bordo. 1993
Fantastic study of women and their bodies. This 10th anniversary edition has a new preface by the author plus a…
foreword by Leslie Haywood, feminist scholar superstar, an authority on women athletes and body builders. When originally published in 1993, it made the list of NYT Notable Books of the Year.